Think the easiest way for something like this is to create a new realm like when they had ptr

If im correct they already divide the servers from nL and Lod so you cant sell sojs on nl for lad annis killing shops.

On reset take all ladder severs and put them on the new realm this being the only ladder realm. if you wanna play nL stay on your sever east west or Europe asia
the next season after there would be a new nl for the new severs

then there would be no conflict with account names or char names, and it would be a true diablo world ladder

Okay.

For one, Asia1-3 were there to handle heavy loads, now it obviously doesn't matter but the physical location of the servers were close enough for them to have pretty much the same ping.
They only separate by realms because of ping, btw. And so now since the load is off they had no reason not to merge those realms.
East and west cannot be used by everyone in the US without a somewhat considerable difference in ping. If they kept only east, west users would always see 50-75ms ping more, not including any grid issues along the way.

Secondly, account and name changes from accounts that date back 10+ years would be an obvious issue. Who gets to keep the L33T name if the servers are merged? You or that other guy?
To fix this problem, they could assign unique ID's to every character so that people could have user#944 (example). Their current system doesn't handle this in the least and the small team doing updates probably won't do that.

Third, each realm has some broken items and it would bring wizzy gloves to east among other things that would make those gg pvp chars not so gg anymore. People would not be happy about that.

Fourth, server side unique ids for items. you have multiples of the same items across realms and I wouldn't be surprised if they had the same id. That would make some of those items no longer "perm".

Those are the main concerns in my mind. The worst being the ping.
I would rather have good ping and not lag ingame than have some rando from west run around in my game with glitched 08's.
Your friends can pick the realm you play and that's fine enough imo, in the end even if one of you is from europe they will still have shit ping even if the realms are merged if the server is located in the US.

An alternative would be to do like Path of Diablo (that d2 server) and let people choose which server they want to connect to, regardless of where the char was created. Then if you want to play with euro friends, deal with the shit ping if you think it's worth it.
This would require some serious work too. eh

This post was edited by laztheripper on Dec 9 2017 06:44am

Rand



This post was edited by Str1k3 on Dec 9 2017 07:42am

And that makes it worthwhile to merge east and west?
Bravo! you win the medal for being really good at asm and unimaginative enough to not have made use of it.
Plus rand... lol a rand is someone nobody knows. You, 3k posts and nothing to show with no involvement in anything worthwhile since your join date, you're the one to criticize me?


Lastly, because I'm done humoring you, remember you started this. If you had been less of a dick right off the bat, maybe I'd have been nicer to you.
I don't mind someone making an argument or correcting me, but you should show some respect if you want to be treated similarly.
You pop out of nowhere, nobody knows who you are and you act like boss man. lol

It's C++ so you rand might understand it. It doesn't make any sense to use opcode, you had to include the memorysection and the structure isn't selfexplanatory.

Post count is a real accomplishment especially, 80% automated bump postings *Standing ovations*

Get to identify people knowing their shit and they don't idle in an irc channel of a site where the socialengineering phoneshop loser is moderator.

You started it because you don't know anybody but the phoneshop loser. His detective skills are such as Kennedy killing himself.

Switch to PoE then you will get the accomplishment to be banned for RMT, as well being called out by "sub 5k posting" players.

Again incorrect about 100% of your assumptions.

laz out, have fun rand

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